Quotes about Ethics
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
— Abraham Lincoln
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
— Aristotle
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
— Martin Luther
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
— James Madison
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams